The canoe yoke jostles for position on my shoulders, hitting a vertebra every time it slides up my neck. My shoulders ache with the effort to support my canoe pack and steady the canoe, an unwieldy seventeen-foot, forty-five pound Kevlar seesaw on a sixty-four inch base.
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How Do You Pronounce Portage?
I learned to canoe in Canada so my “portage” sounds more French than if I’d learned in the States.
Kate Monahan Outdoors 